I Lyrics

I believe that if we are honest with ourselves

That the most fascinating problem in the world is "Who am I?"

What do you mean

What do you feel when you say the word "I"

I, myself

I don't think there can be any more fascinating preoccupation than that

Because it's so mysterious, it's so elusive

Because what you are in your in most being escapes your examination

In rather the same way that you can't look directly into your own eyes, without using a mirror

You can't bite your own teeth

You can't taste your own tongue

You can't touch the tip of this finger with the tip of this finger

And that's why there's always an element of profound mystery in

The problem of who we are

I believe that if we are honest with ourselves

That the most fascinating problem in the world is "Who am I?"

What do you mean

What do you feel when you say the word "I"

I, myself

This problem has fascinated me for many years

And I've made many inquires, "What do you mean by the word 'I'?"

And there is a certain consensus about this, a certain agreement

Especially among people who live in Western Civilization

Most of us feel I, ego, myself, my source of consciousness

To be a center of awareness and of a source of action

That resides in the middle of a bag of skin

And so, we have what I have called the conception of ourselves as a skin encapsulated ego

Now it's very funny how we use the word "I"

If we just refer to common speech

We are not accustomed to say, "I am a body"

We rather say, "I have a body"

And that has nothing very much to do with "I"

In other word we don't regard I, myself as identical with our whole physical organism

We regard it as something inside it